Justices Punt on Joint Employer Question for ABC Test (1)

The California Supreme Court rejected requests to consider whether its “ABC test,” which makes it harder to classify workers as independent contractors, should apply to franchise and joint employer relationships. The court said it would only weigh whether the worker classification test applies retroactively.

The justices are reviewing a case that will determine whether the test should be used to analyze misclassification lawsuits brought prior to the state high court’s 2018 ruling in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court. That decision created the rigid, three-part test that presumes workers are employees unless employers can show they meet the test’s ...